[Sammus]

titanium wouldn't necessarily be harder to bend anyway, the idea is that its lighter than steel but stronger than aluminium. The only real advatage it has as a metal is that its extremely corrosion resistant.

The TiNi coatings are awesome though - although they cant polish them quite as well as steel (you'll notice polished steel shafts are like mirror finish, tini always looks slightly blurry) theyre much much harder. I've successfully sanded little nicks and stuff out of steel shafts before, but before I realised that all tini shafts have that slightly blurry look to them, I tried to sand it to a mirror finish. I put the shaft in a drill and gripped it hard with sandpaper (I tried a lot of different types). Every time just wore away the sandpaper without a mark on the shaft. Top stuff :P